http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=32341 Second Meeting of the Empowered Committee of the NCR Planning Board was held under the Chairmanship of Shri...
Related stuff: http://urbanindia.nic.in/moud/theministry/subordinateoff/tcpo/DMA_Repo rt/CHAPTER_7.pdf It gives the policy recommendations for NCR planning,...
Why the free movement of taxis and autos across state boundaries be "a distant dream". The fact is, the Indian bureaucracy is the culprit. They hate free ...
Mega cities to have 'Unified Metro Transport Authority' soon 3 Dec, 2007, NEW DELHI: The Unified Metro Transport Authorities will soon be set-up in mega cities...
Encouraging words. But, without offence to anyone, these are the platitudes which have been being voiced in this forum by members including this member and in...
I had sent this post yesterday but somehow, it did not get published. I watched India TV praising NOIDA police for penalising the cabbies for giving lift to...
The right words, as you say Rajeev. However, whether this is followed up by any action remains to be seen. The biggest failing in transport policy is the lack...
There is a rather simple answer to this - make all these cabbies licenced and metered ones and all of this ought to disappear. We have one of the most...
I've been trying to respond to Ashish's original post for some time without success. Somehow, Yahoo! kept locking me out each time I hit send. Something...
Hi, I was talking about Signalling . Thanks Abhinav ... From: Shashi Verma <shashi_verma@...> To: delhimetro@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, 6 December,...
My understanding is that the Delhi Metro does not have ATO capable signalling and works on visual signals only. Introducing trains capable of ATO will also...
DMRC finalises report on Bangalore, Hyderabad high-speed airport link 23 Dec, 2007, 1121 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Paving way for Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh...
*200 Rs in addition to the airport tax cess of Rs 675 pay 1000 before you fly ..... would this happen with a Govt airport * vinay* Rail link to airport cleared...
* Metro Rail: proper rehabilitation urged * Staff Reporter HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday demanded the government to begin the Metro...
I see an article in today's HT (epaper) on the first stretch of the Delhi BRTS along Tito Marg. Good to see Delhi is doing so much in the right direction after...
I had heard that they are transplanting the trees. That is the uprooted trees are again planted somewhere else. Is this true? If it is true then is it...
Unfortunately, the success rate is very little. The transplantation is done by the engineers and the workers associated with the engineering works. It does not...
Is the lack of attention to surrounding during and after erection of track structure it? the pot holes in the replacement roads are almost always un attended ...
To have a transport system in place is a different to have coordinated network of systems in place. One system alone is never going to be sufficient. That is...
Very right. Coordianted efoorts are need of the day. Not only within NCT of Delhi but also cutting across all the major suburbs lying in the surrounding states...
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THe Metro is a good thing but I think it is tooo expensive for India to scale to a point where it can help allievate the urban transport woes. 1. Does anybody...
Sadly any form of high performance transport system is going to be costly and the fares will therefore be high. A metro that involves tunnels is very costly...